STRP Talent Pit

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This year, a team of STRP Talent Pit scouts went back on the road in search of the best innovative, technological and artistic projects created by students and fledgling artists during the past year. Projects that apply technology in unexpected ways, offer a new perspective on what technology does to us, or raise questions about one’s behaviour and the use of technology in the media.

Final projects by Bachelor’s and Master’s students as well as projects by fledgling artists and designers are eligible for the STRP Talent Pit.  Together with the scouts, STRP selected ten student projects to present to the professional jury. All 11 were chosen on a combined basis of quality, a high degree of workmanship and the elusive X-factor.  The level was so high this year that some can didates qualified as professional artists and consequently surpassed the objective of the STRP Talent Pit.

The award has two categories: the Jury Award and the People’s Choice Award. Each winner will be offered a free consultation with the V2/NIMk agency. In addition, the Jury Award winner will have the opportunity to exhibit his or her work at the next STRP Festival, and receive €1,000 to further develop the work and cover all presentation costs.

The 2011 jury:

-    Margriet Schavemaker; curator Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
-    Ine Poppe: artist, writer, journalist, instructor and filmmaker with an affinity for digital culture
-    Sander Veenhof: artist with a background in industrial computer science and unstable media
-    Vivian van Gaal: STRP Festival curator

The nominees for the STRP Talent Pit Award 2011 (in random order):

-    Xandra van der Eijk – Momentum (ArtScience, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague)
-    Mariska de Groot - BMP/BPMoptical sound (Royal Academy of Art, The Hague)
-    Adri Schokker - Reconstruction of a Catastrophe (Interactive Media & Environments,
     (Frank Mohr Institute Groningen)
-    Erfan Abdi Dezfouli – Saaz (ArtScience, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague)
-    Sandra Stoycheva – Hourglass (Gerrit Rietveld Academie)
-    Matthijs Munnik - Singingworms: Microscopic Opera (ArtScience, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague)
-    Maria Zendrera Valsecchi – Project Hitchhiking (BFA, Gerrit Rietveld Academy)
-    Dieter Vandoren – Integration.03 (MA ArtScience, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague)
-    Bram Snijders – Sensible (Utrecht School of the Arts)
-    Thomas Rutgers – Woensdagman (Music Technology, Utrecht School of the Arts)